David Borofka is an America novelist and short story writer. He is the author of the short story collection, Hints of His Mortality, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 1996, and the novel, The Island (1997). Borofka has won the Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize, Carolina Quarterly’s Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing. His short fiction has appeared in Image, Southern Review, Manoa, and Glimmer Train. He is a professor of composition, literature and creative writing at Reedley College